On its website, ABC News
(4/18) reports, "Testosterone can ease shortness of breath and improve
exercise endurance among patients with chronic heart failure, according
to" research published in the journal Circulation Heart Failure.
MSNBC
/My HealthNews Daily (4/18, Rettner) reports, "Although most of the
study participants were men, the researchers said the results would
likely apply to women as well, through much smaller doses of
testosterone."
HealthDay
(4/18, Mozes) reports investigators "analyzed four randomized studies,
conducted between 1980 and 2010, which had examined the potential
benefit of treating heart failure patients with testosterone
supplementation."
WebMD
(4/18, Boyles) reports, "In two studies, the severity of heart failure
improved more for patients who got testosterone treatment, compared to
those who got a placebo."
MedPage Today
(4/18, Neale) reports, "In pooled results from" the "trials,
testosterone therapy was associated with 16% to 23% relative
improvements in walking distance and peak oxygen consumption." The
investigators also found that "there were improvements in fasting levels
of glucose and insulin and in insulin sensitivity."
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